Survey of online habits
I’ve been tagged by Adrian (who was tagged by Sandrine) to answer a few questions about how I use the web, so here goes:
What site do you visit first thing in the morning (after your blog)?
Google reader, featuring feeds from Salon, Democracy Now!, International Herald Tribune, and BBC News.
Name a service that you recently discovered and like?
A blog whose design has impressed you?
This one. Most people go with templates offered by their blogging platform, and I’m presently into “Unsleepable”.
A widget that would really help out but which doesn’t exist yet?
A device that would display random scenes from the previous night’s dreams.
The last 2.0 book that you’ve read?
Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing. (Not quite 2.0, but close enough.)
An online service that you think will become indispensable?
I’ll look back rather then ahead and comment that Skype has become a regular tool of everyday communication (text, voice, and video) for my personal and professional life. The toughest part is getting timid technophobes to download the friggin’ software, but once they’re on, my how they’re on.
A service that should exist because it’s sorely needed?
A quick way to locate officials whose decisions have a real impact on any given issue. As Slavoj Zizek advises in a recent issue of Harper’s, commenting on the most effective forms of resistance: “The thing to do is to bombard those in power with strategically well-selected, precise, finite demands, which can’t be met with the same excuse [inaction]“.
A blogger or net-entrepreneur whose work you admire?
Noel Hidalgo is an engaging young man who has toured the world exploring the meaning of interconnectedness and freedom in the digital age. I had the good fortune to cross paths with him at Lift 08 in Geneva.
Over to you, Saskia and Henriette.
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It’s pink?
Hahaha! Thanks for this tag. I’m afraid I will have to translate the mini survey to Dutch, but I will certainly post my answers. And about the boredom, now, two weeks later, I wish I was bored again
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Have a very nice summer too. Plans to go on a holiday?
Saskia
Wow! Ideed, excellent website design! The disadvantage of RSS readers is that you lose contact with this eye candy